| BACKDROP | • backdrop n. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage. • backdrop n. An image that serves as a visual background. • backdrop n. The setting or background of an acted performance. |
| BACKSTOP | • backstop n. A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support. • backstop n. A default arrangement that holds if all else fails. • backstop n. (Baseball) A wall or fence behind home plate. |
| BAKESHOP | • bakeshop n. A shop where baked goods are made and sold. • BAKESHOP n. a bakery. |
| BESPOKEN | • bespoken v. Past participle of bespeak. • bespoken adj. (Obsolete) betrothed or engaged to be married (compare with: spoken for). • BESPEAK v. to request in advance. |
| BLACKTOP | • blacktop n. (US, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface… • blacktop n. (US, countable) A road so paved. • blacktop n. (US, countable) A paved area on a schoolground reserved for recess activities, often doubling as a parking lot. |
| BOOKSHOP | • bookshop n. A shop that sells books. • book␣shop n. Alternative spelling of bookshop. • BOOKSHOP n. a shop that sells books. |
| CHAPBOOK | • chapbook n. A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts. • CHAPBOOK n. a small book or pamphlet containing stories, poems, or religious tracts. |
| COPYBOOK | • copybook n. A student’s exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied. • copybook n. (Quebec, UK) A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers. • copybook n. (Programming, COBOL) A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from… |
| FLIPBOOK | • flipbook n. Alternative spelling of flip book. • flip␣book n. A booklet containing a sequence of near-identical images so that flipping rapidly through the pages… • FLIPBOOK n. a book of a series of images that when flipped give the illusion of movement. |
| PASSBOOK | • passbook n. (Banking) A customer’s record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account at a bank, typically… • passbook n. (Dated) A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases. • passbook n. (South Africa, historical) A kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements… |
| PEEKABOO | • peekaboo n. (Games) A game for a small child in which one covers one’s face, then suddenly reveals it, saying "Boo… • peekaboo adj. (Of clothing) With holes, slits or transparent fabric to reveal what is normally hidden. • peekaboo adj. (Boxing) Being or using a style of boxing with the hands kept close to the face to defend it. |
| PEEKABOS | • PEEKABO n. a peeping game played by small children, also PEEKABOO. |
| PEMBROKE | • Pembroke prop.n. A town in Pembrokeshire, Wales, Britain. • Pembroke prop.n. A city, the county seat of Bryan County, Georgia, United States. • Pembroke prop.n. A surname. |
| PLAYBOOK | • playbook n. A book containing the text of a play or plays. • playbook n. A book of games and amusements for children. • playbook n. (US, American football) A book of strategies (plays) for use in American football (and by extension… |
| PLOWBACK | • plow␣back v. To reinvest profits into a business. • PLOWBACK n. a reinvestment of profits in a business, also PLOUGHBACK. |
| PREBOOKS | • prebooks v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of prebook. • PREBOOK v. to book beforehand. |
| SOAPBARK | • soapbark n. The bark of the evergreen tree, Quillaja saponaria, which when pulverised forms a lather with water. • soapbark n. The tree Quillaja saponaria. • SOAPBARK n. a South American tree, the bark of which can be used as soap. |
| SPEKBOOM | • spekboom n. A South African shrub (Portulacaria afra), whose succulent leaves are used as fodder. • SPEKBOOM n. (South African) a succulent shrub of the purslane family. |
| STOPBANK | • stopbank n. Levee, dyke. • STOPBANK n. (New Zealand) an embankment along a river. |
| UPBROKEN | • upbroken v. Simple past tense and past participle of upbreak. • UPBREAK v. to break out. |